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Jess Goldsmith

Jess Goldsmith

Illustrator, lettering artist, and founder of Women of Type; Adobe Ambassador; based in NYC

May 30, 2026

RobinHOST
2:53
Yeah
2:53
... understand you.
2:54
And then, like, when there's a clear signal, you can get rewarded in your career through that clear signal." Um, so I do a lot of things, but I focus on one thing at a time where I'll go through a period of, like, okay, I'm gonna do, like, hand-drawn, doodled type of work that's, like, very lettering and, like, also working within, like, drawing.
3:17
I guess, like, taking photography and, like, doodling over that with a specific style.
3:20
And I'll do that for a while, and then I'll have, like, a breadth of work that I can show that people are like, "Okay," like, "she's able to be consistent in this.
3:29
This isn't w- something that she did one-off one time and she can't ever replicate." Because we all like to experiment, and sometimes you'll make something and you're like, "Okay, great," like, "I'm never making that again," but it still exists.
3:38
I like to think of it almost like collections where it's like I, I have so many different skillsets inside of me and I don't wanna limit myself and not do them, so I, I don't call them collections, but it kind of ends up looking that way where I have a collection of the work that is, like, super graphic and bold but, like, n- doesn't feel handmade, and then I have one that does feel super handmade.
RobinHOST
8:56
Do you wanna talk about that a little bit?

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